Good Family Immigrants Plant Roots, 1737
Founded by Samuel Bowman, 1820

Pine Grove Church
Along Route 625 in Bowmansville

Early Settlers on Muddy Creek, 1737

Anna Good (GC1) (Mrs. John Musselman)
Jacob Good (GC2), Christian Good (GC3)

Farming in Lancaster County (3)

The settlers' pages and notes (2,4) tell more about the early settlement and later history of Bowmansville. Note (1) has more photos.

In the PA Dutch country of Lancaster Co., PA
Bowmansville on Mapquest

Family Connection

Our ancestor Jacob Good (GC2), his sister Anna and her husband John Musselman immigrated together from Germany in 1732. Before settling along Muddy Creek in 1737 near what later became the town of Bowmansville, they spent about five years in Weaverland, PA with John and Anna's younger brother Christian and their father Peter Good (GC).
 

National Historic Places
 

John B. Good House

Bowmansville Roller Mill

Notes

Photos by Romaine Stauffer, 2006

1. Romaine Stauffer, "Good Family Roots," www.dgatx.com/family...s/2006/05-20/hs.html (2006 May 20)..

2. John B. Good (GC3538), "Brecknock Township," Ch. XXXIX in History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans (Phildelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 673-680. Parts available online at pa-roots.com/~lancas.../books/ee/index.html (PA Roots; accessed 2006 Jun 6).

3. "Historic Farming Resources of Lancaster County" (National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, US National Park Service, 1994 Aug 30). Find form with www.nps.gov./nr (Accessed 2006 Jun 9).

4. Charles D. Spotts, "The People of Bowmansville" in Community Historians Annual, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Lancaster, PA: Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary, 1970 July). Most of it is online at www.horseshoe.cc/pen...nsville/bowmanvl.htm (Accessed 2006 Jun 21).